Get email notification for articles from Ben Samuels Follow May. 4, 2021 7:10 PM WASHINGTON – Several of the leading organizations in the American-Jewish establishment have begun to fight back against efforts to incorporate new definitions in the U.S. government’s fight against antisemitism, appealing directly to the Democratic lawmakers pushing the move as the Biden administration prepares to appoint a special envoy on antisemitism. While the lawmakers do not explicitly reject the current definition based on the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition, which was adopted by the Trump administration in September 2018, they call on Blinken to “use all the tools at your disposal, including these two new definitions.”